The Matawan Aberdeen Library has many resources available to our patrons. From this page, you have access to a wide variety of information. Some services require that you login using your library card, so make sure to have it handy.

Reference USA (View Tutorial Here) -
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million U.S. Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare providers, 1 million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.

Small Business Reference Center -
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.

Business Source Elite -
The world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing indexing and abstracts for active, peer-reviewed, business related journals encompassing the 350 most important scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. This database includes searchable cited references for 1,205 journals.

Lynda.com -
Learn technology, creative and business skills you can use today. Courses for all levels are offered and are taught by experts who are passionate about teaching.

Tutor.com -
At Tutor.com, you get a professional online tutor whenever you need help. You work one-to-one with your tutor in our online classroom on your specific
homework problem until it's done.
*Please visit your device's app store to download the Tutor.com App*

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center -
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries and much more!

Freading (View Tutorial Here) -
Freading is a eBook rental service that enables you to download eBooks to your eReader device! All you need is a library card.

*Please visit your device's app store to download the Freading App to get eBooks and Audiobooks.*

Hoopla (View Tutorial Here) -
Access thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use.
Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets.
Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Matawan Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device's app store to download the free hoopla mobile app.
Check out a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days).

Hoopla (View Tutorial Here) -
Access thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use.
Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets.
Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Matawan Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device's app store to download the free hoopla mobile app.
Check out a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days).

Financial Literacy Basics -
This new series provides readers with easy-to-understand guidance on how to manage their finances. Designed for those who are just starting out and for those who may need help handling their finances, this series outlines, step-by-step, how to make the most of your money, which pitfalls to avoid, and what to watch out for, and give you the necessary tools to make sure you are fully equipped to manage your finances.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
(In the Library |
At Home) -
Morningstar is one of the leading independent sources for stock analysis and data in the world - helping investors everywhere meet their financial goals. Morningstar ensures that your users receive the timeliest data on 14,500 U.S. and foreign companies, current expert analyst reports, and Morningstar proprietary measures (Note: Only one user can be logged in at a time).

America's Genealogy Bank -
Quickly find your ancestors in over 300 years of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and government reports. Search over 1,000 newspapers; the American State Papers; US Congressional Serial Set and more. Find obituaries, birth & marriage notices; pension records etc. Read every article on every page of the newspaper.

America's Obituaries and Death Notices -
The largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices. Extensive editorial review of all newspaper sections ensures thorough selection of obituaries for easy access. An easy-to-use interface allows searching by name, date range, or text such as institutional name, social affiliations, geographic locations, philanthropic activities, etc.

HeritageQuest® Online -
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive database of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories,
and finding aids. Start to discover the amazing “history of you” with this essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.

New Jersey History Project -
The New Jersey History Project team has updated the section of its New Jersey History research guide that provides information on digitized versions of New Jersey newspapers available at New Jersey libraries.

Health and Wellness Resource Center -
Health And Wellness Resource Center provides accurate, authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices. There are more than 1,000 medical journals, periodicals, and articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications, medical newspapers, newsletters and news feeds. New periodical and newspaper articles are added daily.

Magil's Medical Guide -
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format. The guide’s entries are written and compiled by experts in the fields of life sciences, medicine, and biopsychology who tailor the language so it is accessible for students, patients, and their caregivers.

American Women's History -
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.

Ancient and Medieval History -
Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Modern World History -
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history from mid-15th century to the present.

Salem History -
Salem Histroy provides award-winning content in history covering everything from the middle-ages to the 21st century. Learn about the people, places, and events that occured throughtout the years.

Legal Information Reference Center -
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small business.

Bloom's Literature -
Bloom's Literature examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Literary Reference Center -
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Novelist (View Tutorial Here) -
NoveList is a comprehensive online readers' advisory tool used to search hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.

Novelist K-8 -
Focuses on nonfiction reading materials that support the school curriculum, as well as the recreational reading interests of children and students from preschool through middle school.

RBDigital Magazines (View Tutorial Here) -
RBDigital Magazines (formerly Zinio), the world's largest newsstand, offers full color, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from your library's collection of popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.

Freegal -
Freegal is a downloadable music service which provides access to the catalog of artists in Sony Music Entertainment. Library cardholders can download three songs a week with their barcode and pin number. Freegal works with any MP3 device, including iPods.
Patrons are allowed 3 downloads per week to keep and stream up to 3 hours of music per day.

Hoopla (View Tutorial Here) -
Access thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use. Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets. Note: Streaming requires continuous access to an Internet connection via wireless, ethernet, or cellular data plan.
Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Matawan Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device's app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Check out a maximum of 4 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days). No overdue fees; items are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period.

Qello Concerts -
Qello Concerts is the only place to watch over 1700 of the most amazing live moments in music. It's the world's largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to just about any digital device.

New Jersey News -
Electronic editions of New Jersey newspapers including the Star Ledger (1996 – current) and the Record (1985 – current). Also includes Special Reports coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology.

The Star-Ledger -
The Star-Ledger, a leading newspaper in New Jersey, has a history dating back to The Newark Daily Advertiser, founded in 1832. The paper is based in Newark, considered to be the Gateway to New Jersey. It is the financial, commercial, transportation, and cultural hub of the Garden State. Newark offers a mixture of entertainment, dining, culture and sports. With the development of the Train-to-Plane, Newark also boasts one of the most efficient transportation systems in the world. The Star-Ledger is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for its news reporting. Sections of the Star-Ledger include News, Sports, Travel, Perspective and Business.

New York Times -
Full text coverage from 1980 to the present for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.

Matawan Journal -
The Matawan Journal offers online access to its back issues printed from 1870 through 1973.

Independent -
The Independent offers online access to its back issues printed from 1972 through 2000.

Access World News -
The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News provides extensive coverage at every level—international, national, regional, state and local. This fully searchable Web-based resource features news content from all 50 U.S. states as well as more than 5,900 international news sources from 172 countries. News content may be included in its original published language or translated into English.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints -
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.

Points of View Reference Center -
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Military and Government Collection -
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government through full text, indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals and periodicals.

Forensic Science -
Forensic Science contains 500 alphabetically arranged articles written from five different perspectives of the forensic sciences. The perspectives include investigators and specialties, scene of the crime, the American legal system, specific historical subjects, and forensics in the media. There is also a Guide to Internet Resources and a list of television programs in which forensic science figures prominently.

New Book of Popular Science -
The New Book of Popular Science is published by Scholastic Inc., from The New Book of Popular Science database, a 2.5-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staffs.

GreenFILE -
Provides information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment in a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Some titles are full text, the rest are abstracts only.